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Treiber der direkten Demokratie: Welche Faktoren trieben die Einführung und Entwicklung der direktenDemokratie in der Schweiz voran?

Sprecher, Jürg - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2007

... Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, mögliche Treiber der direkten Demokratie zuskizzieren und zu untersuchen, welche …

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Voice and Growth: Was Churchill Right?

Lindert, Peter H. - 2002

The debate over whether political democracy is the least bad regime, as Churchill once said, remains unresolved because history has been ignored or misread, and because recent statistical studies have not chosen the right tests. Using too little historical information, and mistaking formal...

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Democracy and development : the devil in the details

Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - 2006

Does democracy promote economic development? This paper reviews recent attempts to address this question that exploited within-country variation. It shows that the answer is largely positive, but also depends on the details of democratic reforms. First, the sequence of economic vs political...

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Political persistence, connections and economic growth

Bellettini, Giorgio; Ceroni, Carlotta Berti; Prarolo, … - 2009

Using data on a panel of 56 democratic countries in the period 1975-2004, we find evidence of a negative association between political stability and economic growth which is stronger and empirically more robust in countries with high bureaucratic costs. Motivated by these results, which contrast...

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The agricultural and the democratic transitions: causality and the roundup model

Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - 2009

Long-run development (in income) causes a large fall in the share of agriculture commonly known as the agricultural transition. We confirm that this conventional wisdom is strongly supported by the data. Long-run development (in income) also causes a large increase in democracy known as the...

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The agricultural and the democratic transitions: causality and the Roundup model

Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - 2009

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What's pushing international tourism expenditures?

Vietze, Christoph - 2009

In this paper we discuss the determinants which contribute to outbound tourism expenditures. The aim is to show whether and how different socio-economic factors in countries of origin are responsible for the demand, to spent money for tourist activities in foreign countries. While we are able to...

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Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Demokratie: ist Demokratie ein Wohlstandsmotor oder ein Wohlstandsprodukt?

Sunde, Uwe - 2006

Economically highly developed countries are mostly democratic. But does this association constitute a causal relationship according to which democracy is a determinant of economic development? Or is it, conversely, economic development that paves the way for democratization? This paper gives an...

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Democracy in transition economies: Grease or sand in the wheels of growth?

Fidrmuc, Jan - In: EIB Papers 6 (2001) 2, pp. 24-40

After the communist regimes collapsed throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, they were replaced (at least initially) by relatively wide-ranging democracy. Measured by the indices of political freedom and civil liberties published by the Freedom House (see the Technical Annex for...

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¿Es el crecimiento económico suficiente para apoyar la democracia? Lecciones del caso chileno

Aravena Lavín, Pedro - 2010

Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Unterstützung der Demokratie in Chile im ökonomischen, institutionellen und politischen … Demokratie zu beantworten. Die Analyse zeigt drei bedeutsame Ergebnisse: 1) Obwohl das nationale Pro-Kopf-BIP keinen Einfluss auf … das Niveau der Unterstützung der Demokratie hat, zeigt sich in einer Analyse auf Individualebene gleichwohl, dass die …

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